Geneva Bible Notes: Exodus 31

Exodus 31:1 (a) I haue chosen and made mete, {Chap. 35,30}.

Exodus 31:1 (!) God maketh Bezaleel & Aholiab mete for his worke.

Exodus 31:3 (b) This sheweth that handy crafts are the gifts of Gods Spirit, & therefore oght to be estemed.

Exodus 31:6 (c) I haue instructed them, and increased their knowledge.

Exodus 31:8 (d) So called, because of the conning and arte vsed therein, or because the whole was beaten out of one piece.

Exodus 31:11 (e) Which was onely to annoint the Priests & the instruments of the Tabernacle, and not to burne.

Exodus 31:13 (!) The Sabbath day is the signe of our sanctification.

Exodus 31:13 (f) Thogh I command these workes to be done, yet wil I not that you breake my Sabbath daies.

Exodus 31:14 (g) God repeteth this point, because the whole keping of the Lawe standeth in the true vse of the Sabbath, which is to cease from our workes, and to obey the wil of God.

Exodus 31:16 (/) Or, Sabbath.

Exodus 31:17 (h) From creating his creatures, but not from gouerning & perseruing them.

Exodus 31:18 (i) Whereby he declared his wil to his people.

Exodus 31:18 (!) The tables written by the finger of God.